Manners Quotes

737 Manners quotes by 492 unique authors

Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than… — Milan Kundera
Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her. — W.C. Fields
He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it. — Samuel Johnson
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. — William Shakespeare
Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached. — William Shakespeare
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination… — Michel de Montaigne
Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The first point of courtesy must always be truth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages. — Baltasar Gracian
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. — Lord Chesterfield
Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield
The greater man the greater courtesy. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of… — Louis Kronenberger
The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting rid of social… — Brooks Atkinson
Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a… — Edmund Burke
So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy. — William Shakespeare
To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite. — Alexander Pope

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